Formby lookalike waiter is film body-double for Liverpool hero Fernando Torres
Story by Tina Miles
A WAITER was asked to star in an ad campaign as Fernando Torres' body double after being repeatedly mistaken for the Anfield hero.
Lookalike Joshua Orr, 18, from Aigburth, said diners at The Gallery Bar and Grill, in Formby, kept mistaking him for the Liverpool FC striker.
And a film-maker asked the former Liverpool College pupil to fill in for Torres during filming breaks.
The teenager was spotted by Andy Gordon, of London-based production company Sound Films, in Speke's David Lloyd health club where he also works as a lifeguard.
The company was filming Torres at the health club for a forthcoming advertising campaign for one of its Spanish clients.
Joshua, a member of Sefton Hockey Club, said: "I may not be blessed with his footballing talent, or his wages, but I get about four or five comments a day from customers and people in the street saying I look like him.
"I got to meet Fernando during the shoot and really enjoyed being on set with him as we got on very well.
"I played his body-double for some of the long-distance shots which involved playing tennis and pretending to be a dog trainer."
Joshua was so convincing some members from the production team thought he was Torres and spoke to him in Spanish.
Sound Films producer Andy Gordon said: "We were waiting on set for Fernando to turn up when someone shouted out he'd arrived. But he hadn't and it was actually Joshua.
"We were struck by the likeness and thought Joshua would be great to fill in for Fernando during filming breaks.
"Both Fernando and Joshua were both similar in personality too and got on very well together."
Steve Rice, manager of The Gallery Bar and Grill in Halsall Lane, said: "It really is a spitting image and we've joked about letting Joshua wear a Liverpool kit in the restaurant to trick people into thinking it's really him."
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